A Nottingham Panthers match night update service which has built up 11,500 Twitter followers is to finish at the end of the season.

The Panthers fans who run @NPHockeyLive have provided goal and incident updates during games since the start of the grand slam season of 2012/13.

However, they have decided to end the service in April because they no longer feel they are needed.

One of the founder members, Antoine Marie-Jeanne, said: “It’s a group decision. The club’s own Twitter service has improved so much under Calum Chalmers that we find ourselves duplicating what they say.

“We were only doing it originally because no one else was, but that’s no longer the case.”